국민께 드리는 글 - 윤석열 A Letter to People of ROK (Republic of Korea)
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검사로서 한 차례, 검찰총장으로서 두 차례, 모두 세 차례의 직무정지를 받았습니다.
어리석은 선택으로 직무정지를 받다보면 가까운 사람들이 등을 돌리고 외로움을 느낄 때도 있지만, 시간이 지나면 오해도 풀리고 많은 분들의 응원과 격려가 힘이 되었습니다.
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<A Letter to the People> Dear citizens, Did you have good dreams for the New Year? I hope you will have many happy events in this New Year of Eulsa. After being impeached on December 14th last year, I had much time to think. It may be ironic, but after the impeachment, I finally recognized that I am the President of the Republic of Korea. After 26 years of public service, 8 months of presidential campaigning, being elected as the ROK President, and the transfer of power,,,,, I was sworn in as president. Since I took office, I have worked so hard from dawn to late at night that I have not been able to think of myself as the President. Many things required me to think and discuss fiercely and make complex decisions, such as appointments of public service personnel, working on election pledges and state affairs, current issues and crisis management, diplomacy, security, the economy, and social issues. Since my school days, I have lived with the idea that ability comes from effort, so I have worked hard and fiercely no matter what. Many people have advised me to take a break and enjoy my authority as president, but the situation inside and outside the country has not been easy since I took office. We have faced exogenous economic crises, such as global security and supply chain crises, high prices, high interest rates, and high exchange rates. The explosive increase in national debt due to the previous government's populist policies, the problem of household loans due to the failure of real estate policies, and the increase in the minimum wage due to the small business policy, which has worsened the management of the self- employed, small business owners, and small and medium-sized enterprises and their loan problems, have made it more challenging to overcome the economic crisis. However, despite the difficult circumstances, we have gradually resolved the current issues and crises thanks to the people who trusted and followed me and the government. As a result of abolishing the punitive taxation policy and faithfully implementing the real estate policy based on market principles, we managed housing prices stably, connected the diplomacy and economy of a global pivotal country, developed overseas markets, and made efforts to export, and achieved the highest export performance ever last year, and almost caught up with Japan, which has a population 2.5 times larger than ours. Our GDP per capita last year surpassed Japan’s. The nuclear base upgrade of the ROK-US alliance, the strengthening of the comprehensive strategic alliance, and the ROK-US-Japan trilateral cooperation system through the normalization of ROK- Japan relations have firmly supported our economy's external credibility. These days, the past two and a half years of running here and there for security, economy, and social reform pass by like a panorama. I have many regrets, thinking I should have listened more wisely and done better. Looking back on the last presidential election period and the two and a half years since my inauguration, I think of the faces of every citizen who believed in and supported me despite my shortcomings. I think of those who drag their tired bodies to work early in the morning, students who go out carrying their school bags to prepare for the future in the cold morning, and those who suffer in difficult circumstances with sick and uncomfortable bodies. I feel regretful that I cannot visit you and help you. Because of this regret, I finally thought, "I am the President," after diligently going around and working and then being suspended from my duties. This is the fourth suspension from my duties in my public service career. I have already been suspended once as a prosecutor and twice as the Prosecutor General. People around me say I am foolish for not making compromises and looking for an easier way out. When you are suspended from duty due to a foolish choice, people close to you turn their backs on you, and you feel lonely. However, as time passes, misunderstandings are resolved, and the support and encouragement of many people become a strength for me. My foolish decisions have always been based on my unchanging belief in liberal democracy and the rule of law. A democracy that is not liberal democracy is a fake democracy and a dictatorship and totalitarianism that borrows the name of democracy. Democracy is a system that protects individual freedom, and liberal democracy is realized through the rule of law. In addition, how the freedom of all people in our community coexists is the rule of law. The rule of law is realized by rational laws that respect freedom and fair judges. The rule of law is a core element of liberal democracy. Liberal democracy, in combination with the principles of a free market economy, achieves our prosperity through autonomy and creativity, creates abundant welfare and solidarity resources, and creates a virtuous cycle of prosperity. Our country has no natural resources, but it has excellent human resources and has developed through open and active international trade. Today, the world has complex relationships regarding security, economy, and raw material supply chains with all countries. Solidarity with countries that share the values of freedom and the rule of law is essential for continuing our prosperity and passing it on to future generations. Of course, countries that do not attack us hostilely, even if their systems and values differ, should cooperate in the realistic aspects of mutual respect and the pursuit of common interests. However, suppose a country has a system and values different from ours and engages in a hostile influence offensive against us. In that case, we must always be vigilant, protect our sovereignty, and prevent it from being undermined. We must always be on guard against the hostile influence of external forces encroaching on our sovereignty. That is how we can block the influence of such forces and ensure that they do not take us lightly while realizing mutual respect and common interests. We must be careful and on guard to enjoy shared prosperity and peace. After World War II, the UN was established, and resolving disputes for any reason through military attacks and wars was prohibited under international law. War was prohibited other than for defensive purposes. Since military attacks and provocations of wars that shed blood with guns and swords were prohibited under international law, even for powerful countries, they became a tremendous diplomatic burden, and gray zone tactics that did not involve guns and swords came to be widely used. The psychological warfare of false propaganda, political warfare such as bribing politicians and interfering in elections, cyber warfare that attacks digital systems, and hybrid tactics that add military demonstrations and threats have become widely used. Hybrid warfare also includes information warfare, such as the theft of national secrets and key industrial technology information. Therefore, modern emerging security is comprehensive and diverse, beyond military- political security, including economic security, health and environmental security, energy and food security, advanced technology security, cyber security, and disaster security. Military-political security includes information protection, security, and blocking various influence operations. Military provocation and war are political acts that infringe on the sovereignty of the opposing country, but they do not engage in military provocation and war prohibited by international law. They use various gray-zone hybrid warfare, where the attack and the responsible party are not clearly revealed as a means of infringement on sovereignty. In particular, authoritarian dictatorships and totalitarian states are trying to place many countries, including neighboring countries, under their sphere of influence or colonies in order to maintain their regimes. If domestic political forces join hands with external forces that encroach on sovereignty, it is advantageous for them to gain political | power through their influence operations. However, there is no free lunch. We must give up our core national interests. We give up not only state secrets and industrial technology information but also energy security, such as nuclear power plants and industrial competitiveness. Furthermore, we destroy s solidarity with countries that share the value of freedom and invite diplomatic isolation. This is an anti-state act that clearly goes against the national interest. Not only when these forces are the ruling party but also when they become a vast opposition party that holds dominant seats in the National Assembly, they continue to commit anti-state acts that go against the national interest. The powerful National Assembly and its dictatorship have paralyzed the ruling party's state administration through legislation and budget blockade. It goes beyond the political differences between the ruling and opposition parties and checks and balances. It pushes for anti-national abandonment of national interests, paralysis of state administration, and collapse of constitutional order. This is not a story from another country. It is the reality of the Republic of Korea. No matter what political force, it is difficult to continue its outrageous tyranny since it has to watch the voters' mood, but if it is confident that it can secure National Assembly seats as planned or take over administrative power at any time through election manipulation, what can it not do? There is too much evidence of election fraud in our country's elections. The National Election Commission' absurd system that makes this possible has also been exposed. We cannot dismiss election fraud as a conspiracy theory just because there is insufficient evidence to punish a specific person for election fraud. While many bodies were found stabbed to death, we cannot conclude that there was no murder simply because we have not identified the murderers. In a normal country governed by the rule of law, we should actively request an investigation by the investigative agency, and everyone should cooperate to find the culprit. Numerous fake ballots were found in the ballot box counting for the election lawsuit. The National Election Commission's computer system is vulnerable to hacking and manipulation and significantly falls short of a normal national organization's computer system standards. Not only is no effort made to correct this, but if they refuse to verify and confirm whether the announced number of voters matches the actual number of voters, a total election fraud system has been activated. This is an act of stealing the sovereignty of the people and an act of destroying liberal democracy. In a normal country that pursues liberal democracy and the rule of law, the Supreme Court Justice and the National Election Commission, who discovered this in an election lawsuit, should have requested an investigation and actively cooperated in the investigation to thoroughly confirm whether such illegal election activities have occurred. Nevertheless, they covered it up. Many bodies of murder victims have been found, but if we attack people who talk about murder as a conspiracy theory until the victims' families find evidence to prove who the culprit is and file a lawsuit to determine who is responsible, is this really a country? An election fraud system consisting of digital tampering and fake ballots is not something an inexperienced political force can attempt to promote alone. Their political system could collapse if caught in the tempering election. It is difficult to imagine an individual doing it alone who may involve bribery, trading interests, and manipulating public opinion. However, a massive election fraud system that links vote rigging and opinion poll manipulation shows the necessity of powerful international forces and their cooperation. The voting and counting fraud system consists of a public opinion poll system controlled by a specific political force and the National Election Commission's refusal to confirm and conceal the results. The creation of public opinion that the murder case is a conspiracy theory because the murderer cannot be identified also constitutes one axis of the electoral fraud system. If this is the reality of our country, as you know, is this current situation a crisis or norm? Is this not a national emergency like wartime or incident? Wartime and incidents are physical situations that occur on our national territory, a hardware crisis. At the same time, our current reality is a crisis in our country's operating system and software. Article 66 of the Constitution states that the President represents the country as the head of state and is responsible for protecting the country''s independence, the integrity of the territory, the continuity of the country, and the Constitution. In simple terms, the President is responsible for protecting the Republic of Korea's hardware, operating system, and software. The situation in which the giant opposition party paralyzes state affairs by blocking legislation and the budget through the dictatorship of the National Assembly promotes discontent and division of public opinion against the government by abusing unconstitutional laws and abnormal laws that go against the national interest, suspends the duties of high-ranking public officials who have done nothing wrong through dozens of impeachments, and even impeaches the prosecutors. The chairman of the Board of Audit and Inspection, who is investigating and auditing their corruption, recklessly pushes forward bulletproof legislation to cover up their corruption, which is a national crisis that threatens the operation system of the Republic of Korea. The President has a responsibility to protect this operation system. I saw that they were even trying to bring the chairperson of the Board of Audit and Inspection to impeachment to the court of the Constitutional Court, which is also a constitutional institution. I thought that emergency measures were necessary to fulfill the duty to protect the Constitution. I judged that the giant opposition party's series of actions constituted a national emergency equivalent to wartime or an incident and decided to exercise the martial law authority exclusively granted to the President. Martial law used to be limited to preparing for war. Still, our Constitution stipulates that it is a "state of national emergency equivalent to this," and thus anticipates various national crises other than war as situations in which martial law can be declared. The first thing a president of a liberal democracy should do in a national crisis is to inform the sovereign people of the national crisis and appeal to them to work together to overcome it. We should not overcome a national crisis alone with the military and dictatorial administrative power, but we should share the situation with the sovereign people and seek their cooperation. Doesn't the word martial law mean to inform the public of the severity of the situation and to be on guard? I have tried to protect liberal democracy and constitutional order by informing the public of the urgency of the situation and having the sovereign people keep their eyes wide open and monitor and criticize the destructive corruption of the National Assembly dictatorship to the public who do not fully recognize that our country's liberal democracy and national sovereignty are in a state of crisis. So, I instructed the Minister of National Defense to deploy the minimum number of troops necessary to inform the public of the National Assembly dictatorship and maintain order, properly inform the public of the fraudulent election system, and find out the truth. Two hundred eighty troops were deployed to the National Assembly and 290 to the National Election Commission. The 280 troops deployed to the National Assembly were on standby at the National Assembly grounds, and the troops deployed to the National Election Commission were on standby outside. Only a few dozen digital agents accessed the internal system. I immediately withdrew two hours and thirty minutes after martial law was declared when the National Assembly passed a resolution demanding its lifting. The conflict ended peacefully without any casualties or damage. Citizens, martial law is not a crime. Martial law is the President's exercise of authority to overcome a national crisis. That is why the Joint Chiefs of Staff has a martial law division to assist the President in exercising his authority. I was also impeached due to the frame offensive of ‘martial law = civil war’, and the Minister of National Defense and military officials who prepared and executed it are now under arrest. This is truly absurd. The time for deploying troops is only 2 hours, but is there a civil war that lasts 2 hours? Have you ever seen a civil war where they announce to the whole world and the entire nation that they are starting, and then withdraw troops and stop in less than 3 hours because the National Assembly tells them to stop? According to the Joint Chiefs of Staff martial law and martial law manual, nationwide martial law presupposes the use of at least 6-7 divisions or more, tens of thousands of troops. The Minister of National Defense, who served as the Chief of Operations and the Chief of Operations Headquarters of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, could not possibly not know this. Since it is an appeal to the people in the form of martial law, a small number of troops were planned. Since the National Assembly members and staff members were allowed to enter the National Assembly after verifying their IDs, the deliberation on the resolution demanding the lifting of martial law proceeded quickly, and thousands of people surrounded the main building and the party, instead of the 280 soldiers. Following the order to withdraw troops, the soldiers politely saluting the citizens in the yard withdrew. Did they try to close the National Assembly? Or did they plan a riot? Recently, the opposition party's impeachment prosecution officials withdrew the sedition charge from the Constitutional Court's list of charges. Since the charge of sedition was not established, they withdrew it against me. However, if they impeached me for sedition nd then removed the charge of sedition in the trial, Isn't that a fraudulent impeachment and fraudulent prosecution? Looking at the situation after the impeachment, I wonder if the politicians who boasted of having participated in the democracy movement for so long are right. But when I see that many citizens and young people have recently recognized the crisis in our country and have a sense of rights and responsibility as sovereigns, I think I did well to inform the people of the national crisis and appeal to them, and I feel deep gratitude to them. Since I ran for President, I have understood that the position of President of our country is not a path to glory but a path to suffering. Nevertheless, I have no regrets as an individual as to what happened to me, for I promised to establish this country's liberal democracy and fight against totalitarian vested interests that ignore freedom and the rule of law to restore sovereignty to the people. Would I have imposed martial law like this to become a dictator and extend my term of office? I mean the martial law with such a small mini force for a noticeably brief time. I do not know what the judicial judgment will be, but I do believe the people know well whether this martial law was to protect the Constitution and save the country or not. In the past, members of the National Assembly resisted the president's dictatorship and fought for democracy. Likewise, as the president who has been given the responsibility to protect the Constitution, I must naturally resist and fight against the brutality of the National Assembly's dictatorship, which is unprecedented in the constitutional history of any country in the world. It is to normalize the functions of the state and protect liberal democracy. Looking at the current judicial reality where arrest warrants are issued to agencies without investigative authority, where judges arbitrarily lift restrictions on search and seizure by law through judge shopping rather than normal jurisdiction, and where thousands of riot police are mobilized to enforce them, and where first-class military facility protection zones trespass and presidential security guards are arrested in the act for obstructing the execution of warrants, I am at a loss as to whether this is the legal profession that I have experienced for 26 years. When those who disdain liberal democracy eize the sword of power, I feel bitterly convinced that my judgment that our country is now in a serious state of national ruin was not wrong. Liberal democracy and the rule of law are two sides of the same coin. The rule of law that realizes liberal democracy is not a formal or rule of law that uses tricks. This kind of rule of law is the rule of law that abuses people to suppress freedom in a people's democratic dictatorship or totalitarian state. The people should create laws to realize the constitutional spirit of liberal democracy. Once created, laws should not be governed by majority rule but should thoroughly protect minorities and individual rights. When the leftist movement in our country was not mainstream, it also relied on the protection of this rule of law. However, after it secured an absolute majority of seats in the National Assembly, it prioritized majority democracy over the actual rule of law and democratic control over control under the rule of law. When I was the Prosecutor General, I experienced this kind of lawless tyranny of the Democratic Party regime. If this happens, lawyers and legal professionals will be reduced to lackeys of political power. But, citizens, cheer up. If the sovereign citizens have a firm sense of rights and responsibility and try to protect them, the future of this country is bright and hopeful. Thank you, citizens. |
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